I was referring to the OOC bits. Makes no difference to me who Scael talks to. Although it may make more sense to bring it up with Adrian since he's heading the group containing both Scael and Isarabi.

Well, that's not bad. Boiling the poison might concentrate it, which would probably result in a slightly more effective poison as long as it can be concentrated without affecting any of our team.

Turning the field to mud might result in a slower approach, as long as we can clear out the trees, etc. However, we would still need some way of fighting them in the mud without being slowed ourselves.

Creating a "choke point" with his fire might be more useful. Can he create a fire that extends about a mile and doesn't burn threes or grass or anything floral, but does burn the hivelings?

I was thinking something more along the lines of a combustible poison (assuming Isarabi has something like that). Isarabi could then pepper the little bastards and have Scael and Jake come in afterwards and blow them all to hell.

A poison cloud is tricky cause, for one thing, how do we know it'll effect them? And then there's the fact that these things are invading a town, and it's kinda hard to control the area of a poison cloud. It only has to skim the edges and the defenders will be hit too, and you can't just drop into the middle of the swarm and distribute it, cause they'll tear her and whoever is there to pieces.

Fire is good, cause nothing normal likes fire, they could be herded quite effectively with it, especially if Bolt's guy can control the winds. I'd create an outline of a semi circle of fire in front of their herd, two fighters behind it to take care of anything crazy enough to jump through, the others would be at the end of the curved line, to stop any of them flowing out, and the poison is sent through, should be simple thanks to, yet again, control of the winds. Let them run towards you, set off the fire and they'll be shoved into it by their own momentum, the ones that are forced through would be easily picked off by the defenders I imagine. And the poison cloud would weaken the bastards before they enter the fire and kill off most of them if they get around it.

Heck, you don't even really need to kill them all. You just need to kick the stuffing out of them so the defenders can take care of the rest. They could probably handle 50 or something, especially if those 50 don't come in one go, or are poisoned, or are burned.

I'm not sure if I made it clear, or if there are flaws, but I hope there're some things that could be taken on board here.

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Otherwise, they'll just get overrun. If in RL, it's quite possible they'd all survive, but not without some nasty injuries. Although...well, they could equip themselves with gas-masks whilst Israbi does her magic. That should give them an edge too I suppose.

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